Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan rode the Thunder Roc Flying Boat toward the southeast.
A little over a day later, they arrived in the south-central region of Tian Quan Island.
By then, quite a few palace-like structures had already been built around Jade Mirror Lake.
His clone, Jia Qi, sensed Wang Daoyuan's arrival and immediately brought the Ming Family party to welcome him.
The Thunder Roc Flying Boat landed on a white stone platform along Jade Mirror Lake's northern shore, and Wang Daoyuan and Zhou Luan stepped down together.
Jia Qi immediately bowed. "Greetings, Master."
The others followed suit. "Greetings, Master."
Wang Daoyuan waved a hand. "No need for such formalities. How are things here?"
Jia Qi replied, "The Council Hall, Executive Hall, halls for Pill, Artifact, Talisman, Formation, mining, planting, and so on have all been completed.
Other than the Intelligence Hall, everything is already here.
It is only that we are still short on personnel. Apart from the Intelligence Hall, which has fully taken over the Nether Dragon Organization, the other halls are merely empty shells."
There was no helping it. All the Wang Clan members in the Seven Stars Sea Cultivation World combined numbered fewer than two hundred thousand, and fewer than a thousand of them were cultivators.
Most of them were low-level cultivators, and there were not even many Golden Core Cultivators among them.
Yet here in the Seven Stars Sea Cultivation World, a Golden Core Cultivator was not even qualified to serve as a minor steward.
Having such people manage the affairs of the Wan Chuan Merchant Guild truly made little sense.
If they wanted every place to have people handling its affairs, they would have to recruit more Rogue Cultivators.
"A shortage of manpower is unavoidable. Once the merchant guild's framework is in place,